Newspaper-holder.



N6; 717,888. PATENTED JAN. 6, 1903.

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APPLICATION FILED FEB. I, 1902; no monnn.

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FREDERICK W. MILLER, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

NEWSPAPER-HOLDER.

tPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 717,888, dated January6, 1903.

Application filed February 1; 1902. Serial No. 92,107. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, FREDERICK W. MILLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Milwaukee, county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Newspaper-Holders, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in combined devices for holdingnewspapers, means for indicating the name of the paper to be placedtherein, and means for indicating the name of the subscriber of such pa-It is a well-known fact that when several newspapers are subscribed forby the several tenants of a single flat or other building it oftenbecomes difficult for the difierent subscribers to identify their paperor distinguish it from that of other cotenants when such papers arethrown together upon the steps or entrance of the building, and it isstill more difficult for the newsboys delivering such papers to rememberthe names of their patrons, so as to deliver the papers to the right.parties, and owing to the fact that the papers are often thrown in anexposed place upon the exterior of the building they are often blownaway, stolen,or otherwise lost,whereby the subscriber is annoyed andthenewspaper officials overburdened with a multiplicity of complaints. I

The object of my-invention is to provide a simple, efficient, andcomparatively inexpensive device for securely holding the papers, sothat the liability of thepapers being blown away or lost isavoided,while at the. same time the names upon the paper-holding device serve asa means of advertising the particular papers which are indicatedthereon.

The construction of my invention is explained by reference to theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a front viewthereof as secured to the vertical wall of the building. Fig. 2 is ahorizontal section drawn on line 00 0a of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a modifiedform in which the paper-supporting clamps and nameretaining base areformed in a single piece of elastic wire. Fig. eis a transverse sectionof the device, drawn through the detachable name-plate and theplate-retaining flanges.

Like parts are identified by the same reference-letters throughout theseveral views.

A represents the elastic clamping-springs between which the newspapersare securely held. The springs A are preferably formed of two separateplates or strips of thin elastic material and are secured at theircontiguous ends tothe base B by a rivet 0. As the springs A are subjectto considerable tension when forcing a large paper between them, itbecomes advisable to reinforce them at each side of the rivet. Thisobject is accomplished by passing the fixed ends of the plates throughapertures D D, formed in said base, whereby the strain upon the rivet Oand springs A is diminished and the springs are more securely held inplace.

When the clamps are controlled by the publishers of newspapers, thenames of the papers published by such parties will be conspicuouslystamped or otherwise printed upon the base-plate B of the holder, asindicated at E, while the name ofthe subscriber is if desired, saidsprings may be formed integral of a single strip of metal and such stripcentrally secured to the plate B, as shown, by a rivet. It is alsoobvious that, if desired, the clamping-springs and base may be formedintegrally from a single piece of wire, as shown in Fig. 3, in whichcase the name plates may be held in place by the same fastening-screws Ithat are used for securing the device to the walls of the building.

Owing to the fact that the holder is sometimes used to hold severalpapers at a time or a large edition of one paper, the central portionsof said arms are curved outwardly from the fastening-plate and convergein a circular direction toward their free ends, as shown in Fig. 2,whereby a large circular Patent, is-

1. As a new manufacture, a newspaperholder comprising two separatepaper-holding clamping-springs; a base-plate provided with apertures forthe reception of the stationary ends of said clamping-springs; means forsecuring the contiguous ends of said clamping-springs together and tothe under side of said. base-plate; a name or title permanently printedupon said base; and a separate name-plate detachably secured to saidbase, as set forth.

2. In a newspaper-holding device, the com bination of two separateclamping-springs A, A; metallic base-plate B, provided with apertures D,D for the reception of the ends of said clamping-springs;plate-retaining lugs H, H; name or title E printed upon the metal ofsaid base; and name-plate G detachably secured in place on said base bysaid retaining-lugs H, all substantially as and for the purposespecified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

FREDERICK W. MILLER.

Witnesses:

J AS. B. ERWIN, O. L. Roman.

